Iraqi Kurds commemorate Halabja massacre
By AFP – Mar 16,2019 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqi-Kurds visit a grave site in Halabja near the monument for victims of the Halabja gas massacre that killed some 5,000 people […]
Kurds vote for regional Parliament as Barzani draws battle lines in fight for Iraq presidency
Previous 1 / 2 2 / 2 SUADAD AL-SALHY October 01, 2018 Voters chose from more than 700 candidates to win 111 seats in autonomous Kurdistan’s Parliament, a year […]
Kurds must cut loose from the US to achieve a deal
Home » Opinion » Michael Jansen » Jul 11,2018 – JORDAN TIMES The Syrian Southern Front’s collapse was in the cards as soon as Syria’s army and air force backed […]
Turkey says troops closing in on Kurd stronghold in Iraq
By AFP – Jun 05,2018 – JORDAN TIMES ISTANBUL — Turkish troops are advancing on the mountainous Qandil region of northern Iraq where the leadership of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party […]
In Turkey’s Kurdish heartland, a battle for homes and votes
By Reuters – May 08,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Sukru Gunduz, a Sur resident whose house was demolished, and his son sit on the stairs of their rented home in Sur, […]
Turkey or Kurdish militias? Pick a side, Turkish minister tells France
Reuters International This content was published on April 5, 2018 6:01 PMApr 5, 2018 – 18:01 By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – Turkey warned France on Thursday that it […]
Turkey lifts ban on flights to KRG, resumes flights to Irbil
DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES ISTANBUL Prime Minister Yıldırım confirmed on Friday the resumption of international flights to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on Friday and the lifting of the […]
US challenges in Syria and the Middle East
Mar 18,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The Turkish “Operation Olive Branch” in northern Syria has been quite chaotic since it began earlier this year, as the targets […]
America’s forgotten allies in Syria
Mar 18,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Mahmoud Berkhdan AFRIN, SYRIA — On January 20, Turkey began targeting northern Syria with air strikes and heavy shelling in a campaign that it […]
On the front line in Syria, a confusing conversation with a doctor who may be an official of the YPG
Dr Heddo – trained as a doctor at the Aleppo medical school, he confided – wouldn’t exactly confirm he was an official of the YPG although he certainly sounded like it. […]
On the ground in Afrin, it’s hard to know what Kurdish fighters really stand for
Exclusive: While the Kurds try to persuade you of their potential loyalty to Syria and disclaim any connection to the rest of Kurdish Syria and the Iraqi Kurds – clearly […]
The next Kurdish war is on the horizon – Turkey and Syria will never allow it to create a mini-state
Syria cannot countenance Kurdish presence on its territory and Turkey cannot tolerate a Kurdish enclave along its southern border, however secular, liberal and socialist it claims (not without reason) to be Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices Thursday 18 January 2018 Colonel Thomas Veale has had the unenviable task of […]
Syria service for British fighters Jac Holmes and Oliver Hall
By Emma Vardy BBC News 11 December 2017 A military ceremony has been held in Syria for two Britons killed with the Kurdish-led armed group the YPG. Jac Holmes, from […]
Walking a fine line between Syrian Kurds and Turkey
Dec 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen No one can predict what the Trump administration will do in this region where Arabs, Kurds, Iranians and Turks […]
Iraqi authorities gain first foothold at Kurdish frontier with Turkey
By Reuters – Nov 01,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Military convoy leaves the border compound at the Habur border gate between Turkey and Iraq in this still image taken from video on Tuesday (Reuters photo) ANKARA/BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq — Iraqi troops deployed on Tuesday at one of the main land crossings with […]
Kurds headed towards internal rift
Already on Sunday night, Iraqi Kurdish political parties opposed to Barzani reported attacks on their offices in several cities Image Credit: Reuters Demonstrators gather in the streets in support of Kurdish president Masoud Barzani in Duhok, Iraq on Sunday. Published: 12:03 October 30, 2017 By: Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles […]
US commends Barzani’s decision to step down as KRG president
COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES ISTANBUL AFP Photo The United States commended former the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) leader Massud Barzani’s decision to step down on Monday, pledging to work […]
States make war, but war will not make new states
Columns Sinem Cengiz | Published — Saturday 28 October 2017 American political scientist and sociologist Charles Tilly argued that “war made the state, and the state made war.” He was referring to Europe’s violent history and the impact of war on state-formation on the continent. Tilly’s argument has started […]
Kurdistan Regional Government offers to freeze referendum results – statement
Reuters International This content was published on October 25, 2017 An Iraqi Kurdish man holds a Kurdish flag in Erbil, Iraq October 4, 2017. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (reuters_tickers) CAIRO […]
History tells us that nationalist referendums, like those in Kurdistan and the UK, never end well
Kurdish leaders before the referendum and Brexiteers before the vote in 2016 could paint their critics as unpatriotic. Compromise becomes impossible even when the alternative is to disappear over a cliff edge Patrick Cockburn @indyworld Iraq sends artillery into Kirkuk after taking it back from the semi-independent Kurdistan Regional Government […]